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Thursday, July 30, 2015

Temporary Home

This was the temporary home for Tuchscherer's Shoe Store at
356 Chute Street after the disastrous fire of January 18, 1940.The boxes in front of the store held rubbers
and boots.We talked about the fire at
this post: http://menashabook.blogspot.com/2014/07/mill-and-main-streets.html
and in the Menasha book.But the
Tuchscherer shoe store was rebuilt later that year at Mill and Main Streets and remained in business for
another forty plus years, selling shoes in its Art Moderne style building.

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Menasha was carved from the northeastern Wisconsin wilderness in the late 1840s. At the confluence of the Fox River and Lake Winnebago, the town’s early entrepreneurs and industrialists sought the promise of waterpower to fuel their mills and kick-start the engine of commerce. Taming the Fox with dams, canals, and a lock, Menasha initially made its mark with flour mills and lumber-based industry. At one time, the city was home to the largest manufacturer of wood-turned products in the world. In the late 19th century, however, the tides of change once again washed upon the city and industrial focus shifted to the paper industry. What made Menasha great were dependable waterpower, plentiful rail connections to centers of commerce in Milwaukee and Chicago, and a prolific labor force that coincided with an influx of European immigrants.